Friday, May 6, 2016

Royal Canadian Regiment

The Royal Canadian Regiment was
the only Permanent Force infantry unit in Canada when war broke out in 1914.
Shortly thereafter they were shipped to Bermuda to replace the British
garrison. They arrived in France in October of 1915 and joined the 7th
Canadian Infantry Brigade of the 3rd Canadian Division. Also In the 7th
Brigade were the 49th
(Edmonton) Battalion, 42nd
Canadian Infantry Battalion (Royal Highland Regiment of Canada), and
Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (which I have yet to paint).

Detail of the Royal Canadian Regiment
– the grey rectangle of the Third Canadian Division surmounted by a green circle
– green for the senior brigade in the division, circle for the senior battalion
in the brigade.

Coming soon on Tim’s Miniature Wargaming Blog:

I’m already working on Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light
Infantry – to finish off the 7th Canadian Infantry Brigade…
hopefully I will have them up by weekend’s end. Then it will be on to the 9th
Brigade- which has three more
battalions to finish up , and then I will be finished the entire 3rd
division!

I'm not sure anyone out there specifically makes any figures armed with the Ross Rifle. I do have a sniper figure - from Great War Miniatures - and his rifle is wrapped in cloth for camouflage, so I suppose I could say it's a Ross Rifle...?

I wasn't really planning on making use of snipers in the Vimy Project - when an entire battalion is represented by a 15 figure unit - what effect is a solitary sniper going to have in terms of game play? I guess, at some point, I might use these for small scale skirmish actions, and then that sniper might come in handy...